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 January 31, 2011
| Time: | 1-2 p.m. |
| Description: | As GPS-enabled devices become ubiquitous, online social platforms increasingly leverage location as an important aspect of our online social context. Web 2.0 platforms such as Foursquare, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter connect people to each other and to their surroundings. Location-based services and advances in personal computing devices prompt people to increasingly expect services to be location-savvy as well. In this talk, Vanessa Murdock of Yahoo! presents a set of open problems in personal geography, and her current research on discerning a technology user's geographic context.
We lead a double life in parallel social systems. In our everyday experience, we have friends, family, events and social connections that happen in the real world and enrich our lives. We also have friends, family, events and social connections that exist primarily online, which also enrich our lives. For most of us, our online life and our offline life have points of intersection such as events that we arrange online, but that take place offline, or places that we visit and then photograph, discuss and share with our online social community. In this talk we focus on location as an important link between our online and offline lives. |
| Location: | UT Administration Building 1.208 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Matthew A Lease | 512-471-3821 |
| Sponsor: | UT Austin School of Information (iSchool) |
| Admission: | Free |
| Parking: | Guadalupe Garage or meter |
| Categories: | Cockrell School Of Engineering, Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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